Monteverde Plenary Address - Stop Time: Present, Past, and Future Walk into a Bar...
Location
Wedgewood Conference Center, Room 4094
Presentation Type
Presentation
Start Date
18-9-2014 7:00 PM
Description
This presentation will discuss how three Western thinkers and writers approach human time. St. Augustine articulates the plight of human beings caught in ever-fleeing time in Book XI of his Confessions. J.-J. Rousseau in his Reveries finds an answer to the fleeting nature of time in reaching moments of being when he is entirely present to himself. Marcel Proust “finds time again” in bringing into focus present and past time in his novel In Search of Lost Time. Interspersed with discussion of these works will be apposite examples of how some poets have dealt with the human condition of being trapped in time, and all these notions will be set against the “eternity” which modern physics proposes.
Recommended Citation
Paine, John, "Monteverde Plenary Address - Stop Time: Present, Past, and Future Walk into a Bar..." (2014). Humanities Symposium. 47.
https://repository.belmont.edu/humanities_symposium/2014/2014/47
Monteverde Plenary Address - Stop Time: Present, Past, and Future Walk into a Bar...
Wedgewood Conference Center, Room 4094
This presentation will discuss how three Western thinkers and writers approach human time. St. Augustine articulates the plight of human beings caught in ever-fleeing time in Book XI of his Confessions. J.-J. Rousseau in his Reveries finds an answer to the fleeting nature of time in reaching moments of being when he is entirely present to himself. Marcel Proust “finds time again” in bringing into focus present and past time in his novel In Search of Lost Time. Interspersed with discussion of these works will be apposite examples of how some poets have dealt with the human condition of being trapped in time, and all these notions will be set against the “eternity” which modern physics proposes.
Comments
Convocation Credit: Academic Lecture